IBM extended Lotus Notes, to new markets through delivery as a hosted service, Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging. It has been known that, IBM has been driving Lotus Notes and Domino into new markets such as iPhone users, social networking and unified communications clients recently. Hosted Messaging is the next step of this approach.

Using a hosting service, it’ll not be needed to purchase, house or supply energy to new hardware needed to run the software. Customers of Lotus Notes messaging software can instead focus their IT resources on other strategic business projects.

It has also been stated that priced starting at less than $10 per user per month, new IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging is designed primarily for companies with 1,000 to 10,000 employees.